Gamblin Fast Matte Colours

Gamblin Fast Matte Colours are formulated to:

• - Give painters a fast-drying palette of colors.
• - Give painters an artist-grade alkyd oil color with strong pigmentation and balanced color palette.
• - Create a matte surface.  When used as an under-painting layer, this ensures the adhesion performance of subsequent paint layers.
• - Will dry within 18 – 24 hours, in thinly painted layers.  This drying rate allows painters to work throughout a painting session, while creating a dry surface for the painting session the following day.
• - Are completely compatible with all artists’ grade oil colors.  also compatible with Gamblin’s alkyd-based, Galkyd painting mediums. Consider using a 50/50 mixture of Galkyd and Gamsol OMS to maintain the drying rate and the matte surface of the FastMatte colors.
• - Make an excellent base layer for an oil painting. The matte surface quality of these colors creates a receptive surface for subsequent layers of regular artists’ grade oil colors, ensuring that both physical and chemical bonds are made.

Transparency: Consider mixing with Transparent Earth Red for natural, earth greens and for verdaccio underpainting techniques.

Chromatic Black: A neutral, tinting black made from complementary colors rather than the usual carbon or iron oxide blacks. Consider mixing with FastMatte Titanium White for grisaille underpainting techniques.

For information on these colours go to http://www.gamblincolors.com/artists.grade.oils/fastmatte/index.html